I’ve been following a paleo-esque diet for a while now. Regular readers know that my diet is the love child of the Jaminets’ PHD and Tim Ferriss’ SCD: I eat PHD most of the week, and once a week, I eat whatever I like. This has been working very well for me, but I have [...]
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My Mat Lalonde-inspired approach for Lent
Posted in Ancestral health, Diet, Me, me, me on February 19, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Darwin and change
Posted in Ancestral health on February 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Via pourmecoffee, this great Shepard Fairey parody:
Mat Lalonde on science and paleo
Posted in Ancestral health on January 27, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Wow. This is a MUST watch video. Yes, it’s a little geeky (his nickname isn’t Mat the Kraken for nothing), but most of it is pretty accessible. Mat is a former vegan (2 years) and vegetarian (8 years), who has adopted a paleo-ish diet. But he almost didn’t, because he find some of the paleo [...]
Treating MS with a hunter-gatherer diet
Posted in Ancestral health on December 8, 2011 | 4 Comments »
I was leery to jump on the bandwagon of this video … the last time something was going around like wildfire among the paleo blogosphere it was that ex-vegetarian everyone thought was all that (but wasn’t really). But I fortunately gave in on this one, as it turns out it is very compelling. In it, [...]
Harvard-bound for #AHS12!
Posted in Ancestral health on October 29, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Woo hoo!! I’m very psyched that it’s now a matter of public record: I’m going to be the volunteer chair for next year’s Ancestral Health Symposium. I thought the first symposium was amazing, so it’s going to be a challenge to exceed the bar set by last year’s team. But as good as the program [...]
Why I don’t eat low-carb
Posted in Ancestral health, Low carb, Macronutrients on October 8, 2011 | 9 Comments »
A month ago I wrote a post about why I eat moderate carb. This installment, why I don’t eat low-carb, has been inspired by Jimmy Moore’s Is There Any Such Thing As ‘Safe Starches’ On A Low-Carb Diet? As the discussion on PaleoHacks indicates, there were some plusses and minuses about Jimmy’s blog post. On [...]
A quick evolutionary look at obesity
Posted in Ancestral health, Obesity on August 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Via Conditioning Research comes this 2008 talk by Dr. John Ratey at Google. Watch the whole thing for a compelling view on the benefits of exercise re brain health. But for the purposes of this post, he makes an important point (around the 4:00 mark) that there are two traits we inherited from our ancestors: [...]
My Ancestral Health recap
Posted in Ancestral health on August 9, 2011 | 8 Comments »
Wow … the Ancestral Health symposium turned out to be one great conference! The conference videos are being posted, as are the speaker presentations, so check them out. In the meantime, here are my top of mind comments after the event. First things first, I want to echo Chris Masterjohn’s comments re the name of [...]
And it’s over!
Posted in Ancestral health on August 6, 2011 | 5 Comments »
I’ll have a longer post next week (posting via iPad is a chore, perhaps because of crappy hotel wifi), but just wanted to say that the first Ancestral Health symposium was amazing! I didn’t get to meet everyone I wanted to see, but met quite a few of my faves, learned a lot, and chatted [...]
Carbs vs latitude
Posted in Ancestral health, Macronutrients on July 11, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Via Jamie Scott comes this very interesting ethnographic study: Diets of modern hunter-gatherers vary substantially in their carbohydrate content depending on ecoenvironments. A highlight from the abstract: Hunter-gatherer diets were characterized by an identical carbohydrate intake (30%-35% of the total energy) over a wide range of latitude intervals (11°-40° north or south of the equator). [...]
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I'm a techie who thinks that obesity is more a symptom than a cause and that the real problem is our Western diet -- especially sugar, refined grains, and industrial oils. I'm into nutrition, ancestral health & food policy. And cats!
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